Statistical Reasoning in Sports

Introduction:

Welcome to one of the most useful and interesting math classes that you will ever take! I would like to offer you two hints that will help you go far in my class. First, always maintain a positive attitude, even if the material seems complicated and you feel overwhelmed. Secondly, and more important, is to always give your very best effort and work hard. To work is to learn and learning will bring achievement, and ultimately achievement will bring success! Just by bringing these two qualities to class each day will make you a successful student.

 

Course Description:

This course teaches students how to use the four-steps of the statistical process in the context of sports: ask questions, collect data, analyze data, and make conclusions. Each chapter will begin with a sports-related statistical question (e.g. Is there a home field advantage in the NFL?) and then students will learn how to collect appropriate data, how to analyze the data, and how to make appropriate conclusions. This course satisfies the California Mathematics Content Standards for Probability and Statistics. We will be using the textbook Statistical Reasoning in Sports by Josh Tabor and Christine Franklin.